Hades and Persephone, everyone who knows a little bit of mythology knows the myth. Hades is the god of the underworld and Persephone, or Kore as her mother calls her, meaning "maiden" in Greek or "daughter" as mentioned in the book, in the language of the magi, goddess of vegetation and queen of the underworld. Hades, alone in the underworld, asks his brother, sky god, Zeus, to help him obtain Persephone, with whom he has fallen in love. Zeus agrees to help Hades capture his daughter and gives his consent to the marriage. Well, in this enchanting retelling of the myth, Dazzling Brightness by Roberta Gellis, we learn that Hades, who feels lonely in the underworld, asks his brother, Zeus, for a wife, in which Zeus suggests Kore, she is not clearly not a wife. amused at the idea of ​​never seeing the sun, so she sits down and pouts. Hades suggests she eat, so she won't misunderstand and think he was trying to starve her, but she tells him she won't be fooled by his spells. She knows that eating the food of hell condemns her to living there forever. Here is another example of how the text differs from the tale, Hades clearly states: “I will swear to you… nothing you eat will bind you to my kingdom” (DB 18). Persephone has mixed thoughts about this, Hades leaves the basket between them and declares that he is going to sleep, as he has had a long day, and once "asleep", Persephone eats, while he listens to him eat the food, he falls asleep happily, then the lights in the cave go out. The glow of the crystals dims as Hades sleeps and Persephone becomes afraid until she notices a faint glow above the cave. She then crawls through the opening and manages to leave the cave, thinking it is dark and she has managed to get out, she walks until she comes face to face with a large dog like lizard , who tries to attack him. Hades notices that she is gone then hears Persephone calling for him and he goes to save her. Nowhere in the myths have I seen that there are creatures like those that wander the underworld, so this is another twist that Gellis added to the